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Take Your Pick

About Take Your Pick

Take Your Pick was a game show originally broadcast by Radio Luxembourg in the early 1950s. The show transferred to television in 1955 with the launch of ITV, where it continued until 1968. As it was the first game show broadcast on commercial television in the UK, it was also by default the first British game show to offer cash prizes. The programme was later revived from February 1992 to August 1998.

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If contestants got through the 'Yes-No Interlude', in which they were required to answer a series of questions without using the words 'yes' or 'no' or be gonged off the stage, they would then have to answer questions to win modest monetary prizes and at the climax of the show had to decide whether to 'take the money' or 'open the box'.

The box could contain good prizes such as holidays or a washing machine but could also contain booby prizes such as a mousetrap or a bag of sweets.

Comments

  1. Great show - really enjoying seeing this classic again - Des O'Connor and Jodie Wilson who later married in real life make a really great team!! :) BH

    Bryan Higgins 24 September 2011

  2. We need to see more of this show! It's never on anymore! Des O'Connor hopefully to be knighted soon! Great man.

    Joe Bridger 14 December 2011

  3. Great show. I was on the first show broadcast back in 1992. It was nice to see it again nearly 20 years later!! I still have fab memories from that day.

    Robert Bugalski 25 July 2012

  4. Just wondering if you could send me a copy on dvd of the two episodes of take your pick that was shown on challenge at 7.00pm on sunday 13.01.13. I appeared as one of the contestants on one of the episodes and appeared in the audience on the other episode. Unfotunately I have never managed to record either episode when they have been shown on your channel. My name is Darren Edmonds. My email address is darrenedmonds10@yahoo.co.uk which can be used for your reply. I really would appreciate it if you could do this for me. Many thanks

    Darren Edmonds 14 January 2013

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